People
Heide Castañeda
Professor and Associate Chair
contact
Office: SOC 123
Email: hcastaneda@usf.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Arizona
- MPH, Public Health, University of Texas
- MA, Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio
Teaching
Borders and Migration, Issues in Migrant Health, Anthropological Theory Today, Anthropology of Health Policy, Theory in Medical Anthropology, Foundations of Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Human Rights and Transitional Justice, Health & Medical Systems, Global Health from an Anthropological Perspective
Research
Critical border studies, legal anthropology, medical anthropology, migration, migrant health, citizenship, US/Mexico border, Mexico, Germany, Morocco
Current Projects
- "Migrant Communities: Effects of Demographic Characteristics on Placemaking under Uncertain Timelines" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 2149059): Examines shifts in spaces of “transit” to settlement for sub-Saharan Africans in Morocco, focused on forced immobility, legal status precarity, gendered geographies of power, and local processes of racialization (with Tara Deubel)
- "Mixed-Status Families and Citizenship in the Contemporary Migration Experience" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1535664 & the Wenner-Gren Foundation): Focuses on mixed-status families living along the US/Mexico border
- "Legal Status and the Social and Emotional Well-Being of Young Adult Immigrants" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1729396): examines social and emotional well-being of undocumented youth and DACA recipients in Florida (with Elizabeth Aranda and Elizabeth Vaquera)
- "Indigenous Mobilities: Amazigh Im/migrants in the United States"
Recent Publications
Books
- Amazigh in America: Remaking North African Indigeneity in the Diaspora. New York University Press, forthcoming.
- Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives. Routledge, 2023.
- Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families. Stanford University Press, 2019.
- Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States. Mulligan, Jessica & Castañeda, Heide, editors. NYU Press, 2018.
Select Articles & Chapters
- Castañeda, Heide and Amine Bit (2024) “Do I Really Need to Check that Box?” Ethnoracial Ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies..
- Castañeda, Heide (2023) Tamazgha as Indigeneity-Informed Approach Transforming Scholarship on Borders and Migration. Tamazgha Studies Journal 1(1): 45-54.
- Castañeda, Heide, Melanie Escue, and Elizabeth Aranda (2023) "A Lot of People There were Undocumented, or at Least Looked Like Me”: Illegality, Visibility, and Vulnerability among Immigrant Young Adults in Florida. Journal of Cultural Geography.
- Lucas, William, Castañeda, Heide and Melo, Milena A. (2023) The Lingering Ache: Temporalities of Oral Health Suffering in US-Mexico Border Communities. Human Organization 82(2): 131-141.
- Lopez, William D, and Heide Castañeda (2022) The Mixed-Status Community as an Analytic Framework to Understand the Impacts of Immigration Enforcement on Health. Social Science & Medicine 307: 115180.
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Castañeda, Heide (2022) Anthropological Approaches to Migration and Health. In A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition, Wiley.
- Smith, Sarah A. and Castañeda, Heide (2021) Nonimmigrant Others: Belonging and Precarity of Imperial Citizenship for Chuukese Migrants in Guam. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
- Logan, Ryan, Melo, Milena A, and Castañeda, Heide (2021) Familial Vulnerability: Legal Status and Mental Health Within Mixed-Status Families. Medical Anthropology 40(7): 639-652.
- Castañeda, Heide and Melo, Milena A. (2019) Geographies of Confinement for Immigrant Youth: Checkpoints and Immobilities along the US/Mexico Border. Law & Policy 41(1): 80-102.
- Holmes, Seth and Castañeda, Heide (2016) Representing the European Refugee Crisis in Germany and Beyond: Deservingness and Difference, Life and Death. American Ethnologist 43(1): 12-24.
- Castañeda, Heide, Holmes, Seth M., Madrigal, Daniel S., Young, Maria-Elena DeTrinidad, Beyerle, Naomi, and Quesada, James (2015) Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health. Annual Review of Public Health 36:375-392.
Graduate Students
Rachel Kingsley, Amanda Leppert Gomes, Laura Parada Perla, Mahir Rahman, and Augusta Herman